The Prisoner of Sakura

(2019)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 31 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2019

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Japan, Russia

Director: Masaki Inoue

Cast: 阿部純子, Родион Галюченко, Иссэй Огата, Андрей Дементьев, 斎藤工, Ivan Gromov, 山本陽子

Plot

With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".